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Originally Posted by Shazam
If bud was legal, the price would drop like a rock. It would be on par with cigarettes, its closest competitor, probably less so that the market would grow.
Most would not grow it themselves. It would be akin to people who make their own wine and beer. Certainly I don't see anybody growing tobacco trees.
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The actual price might drop, but the taxes wouldn't. In Canada, we get taxed like crazy for cigarettes and booze, I don't see why the same thing wouldn't happen with weed. Then you have to figure in the cost of corporations getting involved. You'd be paying for their marketing etc....
As for the option to buy illegal, a lot of growers would just leave the market. Marijuana would become like any other consumer good. People preferring to know what they get through brands and the convenience of buying in stores outweighing any price benefit from buying from a local grower.